Category: * Stillwater Historical Society (14)

Grist Mill brochure from the 1970s During the 1970\'s Willard Klemm and Gus Roof handed out a brochure to visitors subtitled \"Fun For the Whole Family\" which listed guided tours of the mill, picnic grounds, hay rides, nature walks, fishing, and horses for kids to ride, around the mill property.

The Academy The original owner of the little piece of land in the heart of Stillwater was Willian Shafer, son of Casper Shafer, one of the first settlers in Stillwater Township. It was sold to the township school trustees in 1840 for $300, and the "Academy" was opened in 1842.

The Swartwout Massacre One of the most audacious acts in the whole series of predatory aggressions by the Indians in this township was the incursion of a party of Indians into Hardwick in 1755, when they captured a boy named Thomas Hunt, and a Negro then belonging to Richard Hunt;